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Headstrong : 52 women who changed science--and the world
\"Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's ... profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Women of two countries
German-American women played many roles in the US women's rights movement from 1848 to 1890. This book focuses on three figures-Mathilde Wendt, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, and Clara Neymann-who were simultaneously included and excluded from the nativist women's rights movement. Accordingly, their roles and arguments differed from those of their American colleagues, such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, or Lucy Stone. Moreover, German-American feminists were confronted with the opposition to the women's rights movement in their ethnic community of German-Americans. As outsiders in the women's rights movement they became critics; as \"women of two countries\" they became translators of feminist and ethnic concerns between German- Americans and the US women's rights movement; and as messengers they could bridge the gap between American and German women in a transatlantic space. This book explores the relationship between ethnicity and gender and deepens our understanding of nineteenth-century transatlantic relationships.
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Women who rock : Bessie to Beyonce, girl groups to riot grrrl
\"Writer and professor of journalism Evelyn McDonnell leads a team of women rock writers and pundits in an all-out celebration of 104 of the greatest female musicians. Organized chronologically, the book profiles each artist and places her in the context of both her genre and the musical world at large\"--Publisher marketing.
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War and Women across Continents
Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse and often treacherous situations. It relates stories of partisans in Holland, an Italian woman carrying guns and provisions in the face of hostile soldiers, and Kikuyu women involved in the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. A woman displaced from Silesia recalls fleeing with children across war-torn Germany, and women caught up in conflicts in Burma and in Rwanda share their tales. War's aftermath can be traumatic, as shown by journalists in Libya and by a midwife on the Cambodian border who helps refugees to give birth and regain hope. Finally, British women on active service in Afghanistan and at NATO headquarters also speak.
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Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
\"Brief, illustrated bios of women creators around the world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive
When everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she went to
Dollywood. It was perhaps an unusual refuge. The theme park, partly
owned by and wholly named for Dolly Parton, celebrates a country
music legend who grew up in church and in poverty in rural
Tennessee. Yet Dollywood is exactly where Melnick-a poet, urbanite,
and daughter of a middle-class Jewish family-needed to be. Because
Melnick, like the musician she adores, is a survivor.
In this bracing memoir, Melnick explores Parton's dual
identities as feminist icon and objectified sex symbol-identities
that reflect the author's own fraught history with rape culture and
the grueling effort to reclaim her voice in the wake of loss and
trauma. Each chapter engages with the artistry and cultural impact
of one of Parton's songs, as Melnick reckons with violence,
creativity, parenting, abortion, sex work, love, and the
consolations and cruelties of religion. Guided by Parton's music,
Melnick walks the slow path to recovery in the company of those who
came before her and stand with her, as trauma is an experience both
unique and universal. Candid and discerning, I've Had to Think
Up a Way to Survive is at once a memoir and a love song-a
story about one life and about an artist who has brought life to
millions.
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Scribbling women : true tales from astonishing lives
Short biographies of female adventurers, social innovators, and activists.
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See Me Naked
Pleasure refers to the freedom to pursue a desire, deliberately sought in order to satisfy the self. Putting pleasure first is liberating. During their extraordinary lives, Lena Horne, Moms Mabley, Yolande DuBois, and Memphis Minnie enjoyed pleasure as they gave pleasure to both those in their lives and to the public at large. They were Black women who, despite their public profiles, whether through Black society or through the world of entertainment, discovered ways to enjoy pleasure.They left home, undertook careers they loved, and did what they wanted, despite perhaps not meeting the standards for respectability in the interwar era. See Me Naked looks at these women as representative of other Black women of the time, who were watched, criticized, and judged by their families, peers, and, in some cases, the government, yet still managed to enjoy themselves. Among the voyeurs of Black women was Langston Hughes, whose novel Not Without Laughter was clearly a work of fiction inspired by women he observed in public and knew personally, including Black clubwomen, blues performers, and his mother. How did these complicated women wrest loose from the voyeurs to define their own sense of themselves? At very young ages, they found and celebrated aspects of themselves. Using examples from these women's lives, Green explores their challenges and achievements.
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Shaking things up : 14 young women who changed the world
This poetic and visual picture book celebrates persistent women throughout history.
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Sentiments of a British-American Woman
At the time of her death in 1780, British-born Esther DeBerdt Reed—a name few know today—was one of the most politically important women in Revolutionary America. Her treatise \"The Sentiments of an American Woman\" articulated the aspirations of female patriots, and the Ladies Association of Philadelphia, which she founded, taught generations of women how to translate their political responsibilities into action. DeBerdt Reed's social connections and political sophistication helped transform her husband, Joseph Reed, from a military leader into the president of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, a position analogous to the modern office of governor. DeBerdt Reed's life yields remarkable insight into the scope of women's political influence in an age ruled by the strict social norms structured by religion and motherhood. The story of her courtship, marriage, and political career sheds light both on the private and political lives of women during the Revolution and on how society, religion, and gender interacted as a new nation struggled to build its own identity. Engaging, comprehensive, and built on primary source material that allows DeBerdt Reed's own voice to shine, Owen Ireland's expertly researched biography rightly places her in a prominent position in the pantheon of our founders, both female and male.
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